The first space video call has been made in Ceredigion. Vodafone made the world's first space video call using regular 4G/5G smartphones and satellites. This technology allows multiple users in areas with no mobile coverage to make and receive video calls, access the internet, and use online messaging services.

Vodafone's partner, AST SpaceMobile, claims to be the first and only mobile broadband provider in space whose satellites work with regular 4G and 5G phones.

Vodafone has made what it calls “the world’s first” satellite video call using a standard smartphone, in a test of a system it says will provide mobile broadband service to 4G and 5G phones without dedicated satellite hardware.

Britain's Vodafone mobile network successfully tested a direct-to-smartphone satellite phone service as part of an effort to get around the long-standing problem of weak or "no signal" that plagues mo